Facial affect recognition and schizotypy

Association Between Facial Affect Recognition and Maladaptive Schema in People With Depressive Symptoms

Objective: Depressed patients harbor maladaptive schemas that distort social reality and impaired facial expression recognition. Thus, this study aims at identifying specific associations among depressive symptoms, early maladaptive schemas, and patterns of for recognizing facially expressed emotions. Methods: 100 subjects diagnosed with depressive symptoms were selected from a larger statisti...

Deficits in facial-affect recognition and schizophrenia.

It has been widely demonstrated that schizophrenic patients show a broad range of deficits in interpersonal skills. Recently, considerable attention has been focused on the ability of these patients to decode affective cues. This article reviews findings about facial-affect recognition in schizophrenia. While the literature on this topic is extensive, many investigations have suffered from sign...

Schizotypy and facial emotion processing

Continuous Facial Affect Recognition from Videos

The interpretation of user facial expressions is a very useful method for emotional sensing and constitutes an indispensable part of affective HCI designs. This paper proposes an effective system for continuous facial affect recognition from videos. The system operates in a continuous 2D emotional space, characterized by evaluation and activation factors, enabling a wide range of intermediary a...

Facial affect recognition in CADASIL patients.

We explored the capacity of Cerebral Autosomal-Dominant Arteriopathy with Subcortical Infarcts and Leukoencephalopathy (CADASIL) patients to recognize facial expressions. Twenty-three consecutive CADASIL patients and 23 age-matched, gender-matched, and education-matched controls were assessed with a semi-structured psychiatric interview, cognitive tests, and the Ekman and Friesen test. Cases an...